Fresh off the Boat: helping foreigners fit in
Ever hear of the show All-American Girl? Probably not. Most of us at North weren’t even born when it was tentatively picked up by ABC in 1994, 21 years ago, […]
While We’re Young: May you stay forever hip
In one memorable scene from writer-director Noah Baumbach’s 2005 comedy The Squid and the Whale, Bernard Berkman, a pompous novelist played by Jeff Daniels, calls for A Tale of Two […]
The Rapaissance: has hip-hop finally become an enlightened art form?
I often hear the same grudges against hip hop repeated by “intellectual types” over and over again: that the genre is ignorant, it requires minimal talent to succeed in, and […]
Breaking ground: Gilligan does it again with Better Call Saul
It’s not what you think: Vince Gilligan’s spinoff of his game-changing series Breaking Bad is only a spinoff in the technical sense. It doesn’t rely on the story of Walter […]
So you need a new TV show?
This year has marked the end of lots of TV shows we’ve grown to love. So for those who are not quite ready to let go, we’ve got a few shows that are sure to expedite your recovery. If you liked Parks And Recreation, check out Brooklyn Nine Nine Parks and Recreation has sadly come to an end, marking the […]
Cinderella does not make our dreams come true
—Michelle Xu and Katherine Chen— Cinderella was the classic that saved Disney from bankruptcy in the 1950’s. The movie everyone grew up with. A timeless work of art that received […]
The least magical fantasy: Bone Gap
It should’ve been charming. A boy called Moonface. Corn that whispers. A goat that chews everything. Bone Gap, by Laura Ruby, had so much potential to be a lovable and […]
5 times you probably cried while watching the Oscars
—By Julia Bannon & Elise Gorberg— Ah, the Oscars. For the last 87 years, this award show has been the pinnacle of cinematic glory for actors, directors, and moviegoers alike. […]
The American Sniper roundtable
—By Michael Bamford, Zehra Madhavan, & Hannah Mitlak— Based on American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History and directed by the acclaimed Clint Eastwood, […]
Fall Out Boy rocks its new sound in American Beauty/American Psycho
—By Diana Tang— “We’ll go down in history; remember me for centuries.” This line from Centuries is American Beauty/American Psycho in a nutshell; Fall Out Boy is once again making […]
The Wedding Ringer: Rated R for Rubbish
—By Katherine Chen & Michelle Xu— Jeremy Garelick’s latest movie, The Wedding Ringer, although classified as a romantic comedy, really contains no romance at all. A better label would be […]
Girly songs that guys secretly love (or, at least, that I secretly love)
There are certain actions that guys have uniformly deemed feminine. If a boy tries to sing a girly song—and by “girly,” I basically mean any pop song that is partially […]
Complicit: Fun with a psychopathic arsonist
Stephanine Kuenh’s second novel, Complicit, won’t change your outlook on life or move you to tears, but it isn’t trying to. What it delivers is entertainment. It’s a wild, savage book with enough psychopaths and arson to keep anyone reading. Complicit starts with high school junior Jamie Henry finding out his sister, Crazy Cate, has gotten out of the juvenile […]
All the Bright Places: Two teenagers who learn to live while standing on a precipice
“Is today a good day to die?” is the strangely fascinating opening sentence to Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places. Death is a sensitive topic; however, Niven plays around with […]
A conversation about the year in movies
—By Liam Knox & David Yaffe-Bellany— The drama of last December—the unlikely involvement of a Hollywood farce in a long-running geopolitical standoff, the surreal spectacle of President Obama calling on Sony […]
Bill Corgan’s voice electrifies Monuments to an Elegy
I consolidated pretty much every Smashing Pumpkins song on a Spotify playlist and listened to it for three days. The band’s new album, Monuments to an Elegy, is not at […]
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